Four exams in six days. Two down, two to go.

Deborah: I keep a lot of stuff bottled inside, you know.
Ray: No you don't. I drop a sock on the floor and you scream like a horror movie.

Beer + salt = lots of foam

According to the thesaurus in Microsoft Word, speechifying is a word.

Well, Bijelo Dugme minus Brega. But OMG the concert was absolutely beyond amazing. I was a bit apprehensive figuring that it had the potential to be quite bad, but boy was I wrong! There were about 3000 people there, and the atmosphere was amazing - everyone was with the band word for word and was dancing the whole time through. There was some ( Read more... )

I'm currently doing research for a paper on WWII-time Yugoslavia, and bless the Western historians for trying to explain in layman's terms the differences and reasons for antagonism between Serbs and Croats. But I will scream if I see the phrase "[the Catholic Croats and the] Greek Orthodox Serbs" one more time. Greeks are Greek Orthodox and Serbs ( Read more... )

So in Russian today, we were learning the names of the various nationalities and their languages in Russian.

Girl: How do you say Croatian [the language] in Russian?
TA: Сербски [Serbian].
*Enter hysterical laughter from all the Serbs plus the Bosnian guy.*

Today I ran into one of my old TA's from 1st year. It's scary how time flies - it feels like being in that class was just a few weeks ago. Anyway, she asked me if I was planning on going to grad school. I told her yes and she said "Yeah, I saw that coming." That made me happy.

If you're sick, you should stay home and not get other people (ie. ME) sick.

Back to work.

I just found out in class today that the Russian word for strait (as in body of water) is proliv (which happens to be the Serbian word for diarrhea). I could not stop giggling about it for the rest of the day.